Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Bone Thief Tries To Sell Human Skulls At Flea Market

An Austrian man is to be charged with disturbing the peace of the
dead after police found 56 skulls and 55 other bones at a museum he had
created in his home.

Police in the province of Burgenland said the relics were taken
without authorization from a church cemetery and had now been returned.

The 47-year-old man, whose name was not immediately released pending
his being charged, came to the attention of the police when he tried to
sell three skulls and two thigh bones at a flea market, police said.

A police spokesman said he had never encountered such a case in his
37 years in the force and knew neither why the man had collected the
bones nor why he had tried to sell some of them.